I'm satisfied in a way because this is an eye opener for me, ... I didn't have the success I've always been able to have. I learned a lot.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work... THERE ARE NO LIMITS.

The more you dream the more you achieve.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.

If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up

Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.

The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible.

With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer.

Sometimes others narcissism will take place of your happiness. Don’t let it happen.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

Try to dwell on the people you'd like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

Well, then, do it then, boy.

Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.

[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.